Summary of development tendency: Two offcial (in-kernel tree) lines: 1. ieee802.11 generic networking stack without SoftMac support: http://ieee80211.sourceforge.net/ 2. ieee80211 softmac layer support for generic networking support: http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/ Two populars out-of-tree stacks: 1. 802.11 DeviceScape complete stack (with full softmac support) : http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jbenc/ 2. MadWifi 802.11 stack from FreeBSD for Atheros chipsets (with full softmac support): http://madwifi.org/wiki/DevDocs Please, any corrections will be wellcome. Regards. -- Javi Roman -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/